Share May 23, 2021, 11:04 AM Barb McQuade, known for blunt talk in courtrooms, classrooms and on cable TV, brings her frankness to a Crain s Detroit Business commentary. Michigan election law changes being proposed in Lansing make no sense, she writes.
Barb McQuade: These bills would create obstacles.
(Photo: MSNBC) The former U.S. attorney in Detroit tells legislative Republicans: Stop pretending to fix problems that don t exist and honor the right to vote. Unfounded claims of fraud are being used as a pretext for changes to election laws that would actually make it harder to vote. As a former prosecutor, I base decisions on facts. . Nothing went wrong in the 2020 election in Michigan. And yet, there are efforts afoot to make it harder to vote.
Ex-UAW President Williams sentenced to 21 months in union corruption probe
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Detroit Former United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison Tuesday for stealing from union members during a conspiracy that stripped one of the nation s most influential unions of its clean reputation and led to prolonged government oversight.
Williams, 67, of Corona, Calif., is the highest-ranking UAW official sentenced during a four-year-old prosecution that has secured 15 convictions and revealed UAW leaders and auto executives broke labor laws, stole union funds and received bribes and kickbacks.
The sentencing by U.S. District Judge Paul Borman comes nearly three years after Williams retired to cheers during a convention at Cobo Center in downtown Detroit, and planned to move into a $1.3 million lakefront home in Northern Michigan paid for by the UAW, but built by mostly nonunion labor. His retirement marked the ascension of his ambi
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DETROIT Two Italian managers in Fiat Chrysler’s diesel engine program have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit in a widening case alleging a scheme to cheat on U.S. emissions tests.
The indictments unsealed Tuesday detail allegations of a plot to dupe the Environmental Protection Agency by rigging more than 100,000 diesel Ram pickup trucks and Jeep SUVs to cheat on EPA tests and exceed pollution limits on real roads.
Sergio Pasini, 43, of Ferrera, Italy, and Gianluca Sabbioni, 55, of Sala Bolognese, Italy, each face nine charges including violating the Clean Air Act, wire fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
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